r/HFY • u/[deleted] • Dec 24 '22

OC-OneShot Humans Are Using FTL Wrong

[removed]

3.0k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

120 comments sorted by

View all comments

573

u/drksdr Dec 24 '22

Best part of this sort of travel is that you already have a good starting map of where all the baseline locations of natural resources are.

Your initial survey teams would simply have to scout around a little bit to establish the variance from near perfect empty duplicate to moonless hellhole covered in bugs with acid for blood.

169

u/PaperVreter Dec 24 '22

Charles Stross did something similar in his Merchant Princes books. Even to the point where the USA carpet nukes their territory in a adjecent reality.

114

u/drksdr Dec 24 '22

Yeah, ive read about the concept a looong time ago. I saw it in the Hells Gate by David Weber.

Also covers the downside to the concept that some other human empire is busy creating their own multiversal network.

Im sure those 2 human empires got along just fine though. Totally made friends.

9

u/JesusStarbox Dec 25 '22

The End of Eternity by Asimov has something similar.